Although he had spent more than a hundred years in the world of Cultivators, Li Yao still remembered the Earth in his uncanny dreams when he was a child.
It was a world without spiritual energy. The so-called Cultivation and deities were nothing but groundless myths. In other words, the people who lived in that world were all ordinary people.
Although they were ordinary people who did not understand the mysteries of spiritual energy, the earthlings had grasped all kinds of techniques and mysterious laws that did not require spiritual energy. Then, they developed a brilliant 'spiritless civilization'.
Like the people of the Federation, the earthlings had emotions, too. While some of them were ambitious and unpardonable, most of them lived their lives tenaciously and kindly, struggling and fighting to protect their small family, affection, and happiness.
In Li Yao's mind, all the people in the universe were brothers, and the civilization of mankind was an inseparable whole. All the ordinary people were targets that needed to be protected. It was impossible for him to kill even one of them, much less destroy Earth and kill six billion earthlings.
Besides …
In his previous life, he was one of the six billion earthlings, too. He was just a common earthling. Why would he destroy the home of his previous life for no good reason?
However, the voices were still echoing next to his ears.
"Run. You can't destroy it. It is too dark and too strong!"
If the 'it' referred to Earth, it would be too weird. In the barren world of the solar system that did not have spiritual energy, nuclear weapons were the most awesome 'magical equipment'. But their power was not unbelievable, and the conditions to use them were very strict. Without luck and the determination to sacrifice millions of people, it was barely possible to cause a destructive blow to a Yuanying Cultivator or even a Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivator.
Then, what was the so-called 'darkness' of Earth, and how was it 'strong'?
To this moment, Li Yao could still feel the sorrow, desperation, and fury that 'he' was floating in the orbit of the blue Earth.
He sensed that the 'destruction' that he intended to launch was not evil at all. The 'Vulture Plan' was not an evil plan but a righteous one. What was going on exactly …
"Of course! All evil demon kings believe that they are righteous from the bottom of their hearts when they carry out an evil plan. They are doing it to save the entire world. At the very least, they are forced to do so! Is there anyone who would admit that they are a heinous, despicable, and despicable devil? "
The mental devil chuckled. "Yan Xibei was like that. Xiao Xuance was like that. Lu Zui was like that. Extraterrestrial Devil Mo Xuan was like that. Even Elder Nether Spring of the Blood Demon Sector thought that he was creating a 'third life form' for the evolution of the entire species when he implemented the Spore Stratagem.
"Now, it's finally your turn to walk this path. This is your destiny …"
"Destiny my ass. Even Long Yangjun knows the difference between 'the destiny that other people give me' and 'my real destiny'. Am I supposed to be at the mercy of some damn 'destiny' like an idiot?"
Li Yao sniffed. "If I don't figure out the whole thing and figure out whether it is righteous or evil, I will never 'destroy Earth' as a puppet on strings!"
"I understand it now," the mental devil said. "You are trying to find some comfort. You want to figure out whether or not 'destroying Earth' is in fact a righteous action under certain extreme circumstances and does not violate your personal morals, right?"
Li Yao hesitated for a moment. "So to speak … I don't think that I and my companions in the 'Vulture Plan' in my previous life were all evil lunatics. Come on. Let's brainstorm and see if there is a possibility that 'destroying Earth' is both righteous and moral without harming the interests of the weak."
"You are too greedy."
The mental devil smiled. "Morality and justice are opposites. Despite the vastness of the universe, few things can have both. In many cases, 'weakness' is itself a sin. The weak are destined to be hurt by the strong. It is the law of nature. Or rather, it is the 'ecological balance' of a higher level.
"However, when it comes to situations where 'Earth has to be destroyed', there are certainly some. For example, the most classic 'kill one to save ten thousand' scenario. The entire universe, including Earth, is in great danger, and only by sacrificing Earth can the entire universe be saved?"
Li Yao shook his head and did not think it was a big deal. "Isn't that Blackstar the Great's theory? When he destroyed Karan years ago, he used the same argument. Only by sacrificing Karan could the invaders of the Holy League be defeated and the entire Star Ocean Republic be saved! But what happened in the end? The center of the cosmos was still mired in a thousand years of war. The only thing that was' saved 'was perhaps his infinite ambitions.
"If I destroy Earth for such a lousy reason as saving the universe, will I be any different from Blackstar the Great?"
"That's different."
The mental devil said gloomily, "Blackstar the Great destroyed Karan for his selfishness as a 'stepping stone' for his ascension to the highest power. From the perspective of general morality, he should be criticized and criticized.
"However, his personal viciousness and evilness do not mean that the choice of 'kill one to save ten thousand' is not debatable in itself.
"There are two main problems in Blackstar the Great's destruction of Karan.
"Firstly, it is naturally Blackstar the Great's real purpose. In fact, he destroyed Karan for his own ambitions, to seize the supreme power of the Star Ocean Republic, and to usurp the throne as the ruler of the Star Ocean Republic, not just for the bright idea of 'saving the Star Ocean Republic'.
"Secondly, and more importantly, although the Alliance of the Holy Covenant boasted part of the relics of the Pangu civilization and developed technology that was more or less superior to the Star Ocean Republic, the civilization level of the two parties was not qualitatively different, and their comprehensive national power was on par.
"Look, to this day, after a thousand years, the Imperium of True Human Beings is still able to launch a strategic counterattack against the Alliance of the Holy Covenant and crush the Holy League, which suggests that the two parties are opponents of the same level. Even if the cruel choice of 'kill one to save ten thousand' was not made, it was still possible for the two parties to win through regular approaches.
"Assuming that Blackstar the Great did not detonate Karan at that time, perhaps the invaders of the Holy League would've marched in and caused greater losses, but it was not necessarily impossible for them to be beaten back.
"Perhaps the 'greater losses' would've been multiple times more than the eight million victims on Karan, but no matter how many times more the losses would've been, considering the morality and justice of the Star Ocean Republic, it would still be a price worth paying.
"However, what if neither of the above two conditions were true?
"Since this is a brainstorming session, let's assume the following situation blatantly. First of all, 'Wuying Qi' was not an ambitious potential Immortal Cultivator who hated ordinary people but a kind-hearted, honorable, and selfless Cultivator who was the highest commander of the border guards of the Star Ocean Republic.
"Secondly, the invading Holy League was not a force on par with the Star Ocean Republic. It was not a member of the civilization of mankind. It was not even the Pangu civilization that was closely related to human beings. Instead, it was a weird form of civilization that was a hundred times stronger than human beings and completely incomprehensible to us. It would be a stretch to call it a 'civilization'.
"Under such circumstances, a certain command core of the weird civilization, which we will call 'mother brain' for now, happened to land on Karan, giving human beings the only opportunity to destroy the civilization.
"As the highest commander of the border guards, Wuying Qi, who boasted abundant battle experience, quickly analyzed that if the 'mother brain' was not destroyed right now, there would be no chance to resist the alien invaders in the future. The Star Ocean Republic, including Karan, and the entire civilization of mankind, including the Star Ocean Republic, would've been destroyed. They might've even been caught in the most miserable end. In the next hundred thousand years, the civilization of mankind would've experienced a time a hundred times darker than the 'Great Dark Age'.
"May I ask, under such circumstances, Wuying Qi, who was honorable and selfless, volunteered to stay on Karan to stall the 'mother brain', only to sacrifice himself, detonate Karan, and kill the 'mother brain', leading to the collapse of the alien invaders and saving the entire civilization of mankind?
"Under such circumstances, Monster Li, who is full of a sense of justice and morality, please tell me, are the future generations qualified to condemn such a 'Wuying Qi'?"
Frowning for a long time, Li Yao said, "You have made a conclusion in advance and then proposed all kinds of harsh conditions based on the conclusion. It is tantamount to shooting an arrow at the target randomly and then drawing the bull's eye according to the landing point of the arrow. How can you not hit the target every time?
"In your example, a weird life form that is a hundred times more powerful than the civilization of mankind in comprehensive terms and that we cannot resist at all has only one 'mother brain' at the highest command core, and the 'mother brain' is stupid enough to land on an enemy's planet that contains tremendous explosives without any protection. When the planet is detonated in the end, not even a single thing such as a remaining soul can escape, and not even half a successor can be found? That … That is the stupidest thing ever!
"In my opinion, even if such a weird life form that is a hundred times more powerful than the civilization of mankind does exist, it can't have only one 'mother brain'. It is very possible that there are thousands of mother brains like synapses.
"Even if there is only one mother brain, after the mother brain dies, there must be other things such as synapses that can develop into a new mother brain automatically.
"Otherwise, how could such a stupid species develop to a hundred times more powerful than the civilization of mankind when the universe is so dangerous?
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